“ True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but hav… Michael Bassey Johnson
“ It was like diving into winter waves. "I can't," I told him."Why not?""Because I need to find out who I am by myself before I can be with anyone else. Louise Hawes
“ This year I've been figuring out who I am. I've been learning what I want, and it's the same as what I've always wanted, only I'm different. Leaders live and grow and learn. They run into dragons, get… Robin York
“ Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery. Charles F. Glassman
“ No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself. F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ I suppose the test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found that one can never please the people they wanted to please. Willa Cather
“ I could go if i wantedshare the floorboards with someonein a place less haunted but i like it hereand i’m happy to stay in this mess on my ownin this home i have built for myself in my bones Savannah Brown
“ People may advice you, guide you and evaluate what you do, but bear in mind they can’t think for you. You don’t blame people for not thinking for you; blame yourself for depending on them to do what y… Israelmore Ayivor
“ Both men had made her feel as if she were the one who was at fault, a typically masculine reaction to a woman who was able to act independently of them. Flora Kidd
“ The modern man needs to catch on to the fact that women want to be treated as equals, but only when it suits us. the modern woman's fierce need for independence doesn't mean we want to pay for our hal… Jodi Ellen Malpas
“ I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come.I’m free, and against organiz… Fernando Pessoa
“ When you can find your own axis, you can revolve around it, for when you revolve your life on someone outside of you, you lose your own alignment. Just as the earth revolves around its own axis daily… Malti Bhojwani
“ Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow. Kahlil Gibran
“ When we embrace the opposites within ourselves and understand that inner harmony arises when they mature, we find the love, joy, silence and freedom that are hidden in every moment. It is my experienc… Swami Dhyan Giten
“ A steely look of anger flared in my mother’s eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own. Rick Riordan
